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In reply to the discussion: On growing older: [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)were visiting us years ago. I went to get something out of the hall closet and overheard one saying to the other: "You know Jen...I look at myself and I think...I look old...but, I don't feel any older inside that when I was in my 20's." Her sister said...I know ...I don't either, I always expect to see myself young when I look in the mirror and then I get the shock!" They both hooted in laughter.
They both traveled all over the world in the years after both husbands died, signed up for "Elder Hostels" all over the USA where they would stay in College Dorms in the Summer and take classes on interesting topics by Professors who were involved in the program. They went on a sailing cruise up the East Coast in their early 80's and loved a good meal with a couple of glasses of wine to top it off. (They were very lucky not to have any debilitating diseases or other circumstances that allowed them to keep going the way they did. Good Genes, I think since their own mother lived to be in 90's.)
They were lively and funny...but, as I've gotten older what they said about "feeling like they were 20 inside" has stayed with me. I still feel like I'm the same person I was...but, it's hard not to notice that one only looks 20 something...when they really ARE 20 Something. But, keeping "young at heart" is a goal I hope to have even if I make it to their great age. They both died in their mid-nineties. I miss them much. They were what I'd hope I can aspire to be.